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Calculating nuclear accident probabilities from empirical frequencies

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  • Minh Ha-Duong

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  • Venance Journé

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Since there is no authoritative, comprehensive and public historical record of nuclear power plant accidents, we reconstructed a nuclear accident data set from peer-reviewed and other literature. We found that, in a sample of five random years, the worldwide historical frequency of a nuclear major accident, defined as an INES level 7 event, is 14 %. The probability of at least one nuclear accident rated at level ≥4 on the INES scale is 67 %. These numbers are subject to uncertainties because of the fuzziness of the definition of a nuclear accident.

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  • Minh Ha-Duong & Venance Journé, 2014. "Calculating nuclear accident probabilities from empirical frequencies," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 249-258, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:envsyd:v:34:y:2014:i:2:d:10.1007_s10669-014-9499-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s10669-014-9499-0
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